AspireOne within a network

benz4417 · Jul 14, 2008

Just getting my feet wet on my new Acer Aspire One.
First impressions are very positive.
That was reinforced when the machine was 'unlocked' - thank you !

Now I need to make it a part of my office network.
I need to give it identification and the credentials so that it may see other computers on the network, and be seen by others.
And to say nothing about using my network printers !
How does one do that ?

I am not giving up on Linux just yet. But I miss Windows already !
Fred

Verbl Kint · Jul 14, 2008

You need to learn Samba.

http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Sam ... ollection/

I'm not up-to-date as per the latest linux packages but I'm pretty sure that there's a gui-wrapper for this on freshmeat.net or sourceforge.net.

benz4417 · Jul 15, 2008

Wonderful. Just what I needed. To learn yet another network manager.
I see my AspireOne comes with SAMBA ver. 3.02...
Where in h... is it located ?
I understand I have to set up a .conf file.

I need a better file browser and editor !

... Windows looks better all the time...

F.

lotus49 · Jul 16, 2008

benz4417 said:
... Windows looks better all the time...

It's not often I hear people say that.

The problem here is not Linux but Linpus. It is a very restrictive distro and a more general one like Ubuntu would work better but if you are a real Linux newbie and you don't have one of the 8GB SSD versions (which apparently run Windows very slowly) you may well be better off switching to XP. You might even try Vista if you don't mind your One becoming obsolete while you wait for it to boot.

Fabien · Jul 17, 2008

You can install pyNeighbohood to browse your network and mount shared folders.

Download last stable version on http://pyneighborhood.sourceforge.net/ in the download folder
Open xterm session : ALT-F2 and type xterm and press enter
We need to be root to install the programm

Code:

sudo su

We need to instal make and gcc to compil pyNeighborhood

Code:

yum install make

Code:

yum install gcc

Now we can unpackage the archive

Code:

cd /home/user/Downloads
tar -xvjf pyNeighborhood-0.4.1.tar.bz2

We go into the folder

Code:

cd pyNeighborhood-0.4.1

and we install

Code:

./configure
make
make install

We have to change user and group owner on the /mnt/lan folder in order to use it with the user "user" :

Code:

chown user.user /mnt/lan

We can now launch pyNeighborhood

Code:

pyNeighborhood

Some parameters to change :
Edit > Preferences > SMB > disable SMB
Edit > Preferences > CIFS > replace mount.cifs by sudo mount and umount.cifs by sudo umount
Edit > Preferences > Files manager > edit xterm -e mc and replace by thunar

Now you can add your machines in Edit > add machines and mount shared folder, and browse them in thunar.

After that, you can lauch pyneighborhood with CTRL+F2 and type pyNeighborhood, you don't need to be root to run the programm

Sorry for my english ! I hope it helps someone.

Edit August 05, 2008 : add modification of the owner to the /mnt/lan folder to work with user account (fix the mount failed)

dandesigns · Jul 24, 2008

do still need to install ntfs-3g? i can see the network but when i try to access the shared folder, it says mount failed.

vzmr82 · Jul 24, 2008

Fabien said:
You can install pyNeighbohood to browse your network and mount shared folders.

[...]

Now you can add your machines in Edit > add machines and mount shared folder, and browse them in thunar.

After that, you can lauch pyneighborhood with CTRL+F2 and type pyNeighborhood, you don't need to be root to run the programm

Sorry for my english ! I hope it helps someone.

@Fabien
Thank you very much. Excellent post, one problem solved, everything worked as advertised.

One question: of the created directory, what can we delete, and what we have to keep, so that the program runs correctly? And where should we move it to take it out the Downloads directory?

Andysan · Jul 26, 2008

Thanks Fabien, but i too am getting "Mount Failed".Any ideas gratefully received thanks! :mrgreen:

Oh, and can i delete the contents of my "Download" folder please? Thanks!!!

frasco · Jul 27, 2008

...the same "Mount Failed"! :?:

cheos · Jul 29, 2008

This is because, as a regular user, you don't have write access to default mount directory /mnt/lan. Under Preference dialog, change that directory to something like /home/user/lan (you have to create this directory first) and it should work.

Andysan · Jul 29, 2008

OH YEAH!!!! Thanks, thats ace!

jcaballero73 · Jul 29, 2008

I made the directory change as described and was still unsucessful, "unable to mount". Any more suggestions?

Thanks,

John

Andysan · Jul 30, 2008

Have you ensured that you have created said folder and it exists?

jcaballero73 · Jul 30, 2008

Thanks for following up. I have created teh folder and I have permissions. When I browse to teh folder there is now a folder inside /home/user/lan with the name of teh network computer I am trying to connect to. Inside that folder is are folders for teh various shares I have tried to connect to. But still unable to mount. Does this help any?

Thanks.

cheos · Jul 30, 2008

Please check you also followed Fabien's advices as well, especially :

Some parameters to change :
Edit > Preferences > SMB > disable SMB
Edit > Preferences > CIFS > replace mount.cifs by sudo mount and umount.cifs by sudo umount

I dunno why these changes are required, but It worked for me so it should work for you as well

jcaballero73 · Jul 30, 2008

Thanks. I have checked the settings a few times. But, i will check again. I will be out of teh office untilonday, but I will check again then.

dandesigns · Aug 2, 2008

thanks! that did it!

you can only mount folders and not the entire host by the way.

Fabien · Aug 5, 2008

Andysan said:
Thanks Fabien, but i too am getting "Mount Failed".Any ideas gratefully received thanks! :mrgreen:

frasco said:
...the same "Mount Failed"! :?:

jcaballero73 said:
I made the directory change as described and was still unsucessful, "unable to mount". Any more suggestions?

cheos said:
This is because, as a regular user, you don't have write access to default mount directory /mnt/lan. Under Preference dialog, change that directory to something like /home/user/lan (you have to create this directory first) and it should work.

That's right, I forgot you have to change user/group properties on the /mnt/lan folder or create it as cheos said in order to work properly with the user account. This is probably why you have the failed to mount error.

To change user and group owner, open a terminal and type

Code:

sudo su
chown user.user /mnt/lan

After that it would work.

Fabien · Aug 5, 2008

vzmr82 said:
One question: of the created directory, what can we delete, and what we have to keep, so that the program runs correctly? And where should we move it to take it out the Downloads directory?

Andysan said:
Oh, and can i delete the contents of my "Download" folder please? Thanks!!!

You can delete both pyNeighborhood-0.4.1 folder and pyNeighborhood-0.4.1.tar.bz2 file in the Downloads folder after installation.

mikeal · Aug 7, 2008

Great tip! Now I can access all the files on my XP desktop even the folders I did not set to share! My question is Why I can not write to the folders. When try to copy files to or delete files from these folders, it says I do not have the permission. I run su at terminal. still can not write to.